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Originally Posted by jammies
Have to disagree here, the reveal is one of the reason's the third film is far weaker than the first two. The ravaged look of the Emperor and the confinement of Vader to his mask was more than enough to show the perils of following the Dark Side, and really, the "false promises" of power weren't at all false - Obi-Wan was a hermit on some obscure desert planet and Yoda lived in the jungle with the monkeys, while the Emperor ran the whole galaxy and Vader was his right-hand man.
"*I* am your father" was a great movie moment, seeing Vader's fat pasty face was not. A far better ending would have been him attacking the Emperor in the penultimate scene (preferably before 10 minutes or whatever it was of "Die! Die Skywalker! *zzzzzt* *zzzzzt* Die some more! *zzzzt*") and being killed by him but allowing Luke to kill the Emperor in turn. How sweet would have a 2 on 1 Vader/Luke vs Emperor light sabre battle have been? But no, Lucas wanted to tell a vapid story of death-bed repentance instead, incidentally making his supposed hero merely a catalyst for events instead of the instigator thereof.
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Maybe "false promise" isn't the right word, but it was certainly a raw deal with the dark side. Yes, you got power, but your wife died and you ended up a walking zombie trapped inside a robotic shell.
What made ROTJ the worst of the original trilogy was the overly child-centric use of the Ewoks. Even then, ROTJ isn't a bad movie. There are a ton of great scenes in ROTJ and overall it was still a great movie.
The bit where Luke looks at his robotic hand and then at the robotic stub he has cut off Vader is genious. I think you're being facetious here, as I previously stated, the removal of Vader's mask is one of the greatest moments in movie history.